despise
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I was genuinely searching for real answers in “The Man Will Burn” to lingering questions like, what’s up with these clowns and why do so many people despise them?
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Co-signers include the Open Markets Institute, an anti-monopoly advocacy and research group in Washington that tends to despise Big Tech, and the Writer’s Guild.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
But it has also triggered an unexpected wave of nostalgia, with some Delhi residents expressing affection for a place they often claimed to despise.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
“It’s impossible. . . . If I do that, my kids, my grandkids would despise me. My wife will despise me.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
“But I look better in blue and I despise purple.”
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
“Drapatiy genuinely despises the Soviet legacy in all its forms,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He’s retiring from his House seat this cycle because he has a young family and genuinely despises political life in Washington.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
To deal with others, he has sent Karoline Leavitt, his pep secretary, into the Brady Briefing Room to handle the reporters he despises.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Cicero, who despises Catalina for his reckless idealism, is one of many characters trying to bring the architect to heel.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
She despises me, he realized, but no more than I despise myself.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Djokovic was despondent after the match, saying he "despised every moment I spent on the court for that".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
It’s about understanding that that the removal of a single despised figurehead isn’t enough.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
He despised the way Mauldin portrayed the soldiers and thought it gave the world an unflattering picture of the troops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Bogle almost certainly would’ve despised cryptocurrency ETFs as speculative instruments that produce no cash flow.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
It didn’t take long for Elizabeth Cady Stanton to realize that she despised small-town life.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
He is described as a man who had “poked his chin up sideways, carrying his nose with that aforesaid appearance of ‘sniff,’ as though despising an egg which he knew he could not digest.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Society is depicted as "worshiping only power and money, despising art, sensitivity, tenderness, where people ...don't talk anymore."
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
"It's astonishing how people can put so much vitriol and energy into despising someone. It's extraordinarily damaging," she says of the most bitter sibling rivalry.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024
Instead of establishing a succession plan, he continued taunting and goading his children into hating each other and despising him.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2023
Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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